SPARTAN CRUISER -
Three-engined light transport, based on Saro-Percival Mailplane of 1931
and produced by Spartan in collaboration with Saunders-Roe. Production
comprised one Spartan Cruiser I prototype, 12 six-passenger Spartan Cruiser
IIs and three eight-passenger Spartan Cruiser Ills, completed by May 1935.
In September 1939, three Spartan Cruiser IIs and one Spartan Cruiser III
powered by 130 hp DH Gipsy Major I Srs I engines, serving with Scottish
Airways on Highland and Island routes; of these, one Mk II (G-ACSM) flew
for a few months in civil marks and the other three impressed in April
1940 to serve with Nos 6 or 7 AACU, but little IIsed as airframes badly
deteriorated.
Cruising speed, 115 mph (85
kmlh). Gross weight, 6,200 Ib (2,812 kg). Span, 54ft 0 in (16.46 m). Length,
39 ft 2 in (11.94m).
